Sony Corporation suffered a huge security breach in its video game online network with names, addresses and credit card numbers of 100 million PlayStation and PC game network users stolen by hackers.  This week on the legal-affairs podcast Lawyer2Lawyer, we discuss the legal obligations of companies to protect consumer data and the rights…

A global search is underway for ingenuity and innovation in law practice management. It is the seventh-annual InnovAction Awards sponsored by the College of Law Practice Management. With the June 1 entry deadline fast approaching, you don’t have much time to submit your nomination.

Any lawyer or law firm anywhere in the world is…

For workers who wonder whether their employers are paying them what the law requires, the enforcement tool they need may be right in their pockets. The U.S. Department of Labor has created a free timesheet app for the iPhone and iPad that is designed to help employees…

At the PLI seminar on social media I attended yesterday in New York, one of the speakers, Kelly Hoey, remarked, “I don’t ever again want to have to fill out another social media profile.” Well Kelly, meet Lawford, a new professional networking site for lawyers that fills out your…

I am participating Wednesday in a PLI live seminar and webcast, Lawyers’ Guide to Using Social Media for Professional and Client Development. There is a full-day line-up of panels as well as a keynote presentation by Steve Rubel, SVP and director of insights for Edelman Digital. The program is chaired by Kevin O’Keefe, founder of…

Has technology rendered the First Amendment obsolete? Alex Kozinski, chief judge of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, made that case in a recent speech at Golden Gate University School of Law. This…

The Massachusetts Law Office Management Assistance Program (LOMAP) is hosting a free, one-hour webinar this Friday, April 29, at noon, at which I will present on “The Power of Social Media.” Full details available here.…

In close to 20 years of writing about legal technology and the Web, one article of mine stands head and shoulders above all others for the impassioned feedback I received. That article was my head-to-head review of Casemaker vs. Fastcase, the two legal research services that market themselves to…

A group of 18 soon-to-graduate Harvard Law School students so fear the approaching loss of “the discussions we’ve had over bagels and coffee” that they have started a blog in the hopes of perpetuating their exchanges, if only virtually. The blog, Just Enrichment, is wide ranging in its coverage. In less than a month of…

A newly launched website, The Free Law Reporter, provides free access to a searchable index of recent federal and state court opinions. Developed by the Center for Computer-Assisted Legal Instruction (CALI), the site describes itself as an “electronic case reporter” that makes the opinions searchable and also provides them as ebook collections.…

No doubt you’ve heard the news by now: Your iPhone is snooping on you, regularly recording data about your whereabouts. My response to this news is similar to David Pogue’s, So what? Of course, there are real forensics implications here, as these hidden files pop up as Exhibit A in divorce…

An innovative experiment that will turn a working Massachusetts courtroom into a test lab for social media in the courts is gearing up to launch on May 2.

Once it starts, most of what happens in the courtroom at Quincy District Court will be streamed live over the Web for anyone to see. In addition,…